Dr. Inez Ringland’s Retirement Celebration

The Dominican University community arrived en masse this past Monday to help Inez celebrate over 23 years of service as Director of the Rebecca Crown Library.

Inez has been affiliated with the university for over 30 years, having received her undergraduate degree and graduate degree in Library Science from Rosary College. Inez began her career in librarianship at DePaul University. While at DePaul she earned her M.A in Philosophy and began work towards a Ph.D. Inez spent 9 years at DePaul before returning to Dominican as Director of the Library. Inez’s many accomplishments include leading a retrospective conversion of the library’s catalog records and bringing the catalog online, and streamlining the cataloging and circulation procedures , all while raising a family and finishing her Ph.D.

Although no longer the Director of the Library, we’ll still see Inez on campus, as she will teach a Senior Seminar course this fall. Inez will certainly remain busy as ever, tending her garden and starting her
“new career” as babysitter for her two grandchildren.

We thank you again, Inez, for all your contributions to Dominican and wish you well in the future.

Thank you, Inez Ringland

After over 20 years dedicated and hard-working years, Inez’s last day as director of the Library is tomorrow,  Friday, June 27th.  Thank you, Inez, for all the years.  She can’t stay away for long and will be back in the fall to teach an LAS seminar.  Until then, enjoy these:

Summer Reference Hours

Crown Library has new reference hours for the summer. Beginning June 2, a librarian will be at the reference desk:

Monday - Thursday: 9:00am - 10:00pm

Friday - Sunday: 9:00am - 5:00pm

You can IM, call or email us during that time, too.

Free Civil War Resources

Alexander Street Press is offering free access to its Civil War resources until June 30, 2008. Find letters, diaries, photographs, posters, newspapers, magazines and more. Also find information on battles, regiments and individual soldiers.

To access the resources, go to: http://alexanderstreet.com/resources/civilwar.access.htm.
User name: american
Password: bicentennial

Image above from: http://cpho.alexanderstreet.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1457

GSLIS honors Inez Ringland

Last week, the GSLIS faculty lured Inez to its weekly meeting in order to honor her for over 20 years of service as the director of Rebecca Crown Library.  Thinking she was there for another reason, Inez was completely surprised to learn the real purpose of the invitation.  After short speeches and a standing ovation, the party moved outside where this all too wild picture was taken.

Look for more tributes to Inez in the coming weeks.

(Inez thought she was at the meeting to honor Mary Pat Fallon for her Excellence in Teaching Award.  Congratulations, Mary Pat!  You deserve it.)

Earth Day 2008: Receipts

You can also help conserve paper by not getting a receipt when you check out books. Just tell the library employee that you don’t need one. We won’t print one. You can always find out the due date of your books, and renew them, through MyAccount.

Coincidentally, Matt Damon, who bears a striking resemblance to Ken in the last post, is a proponent of saving paper as evidenced by his many green initiatives, including participation in Green Dimes. For a tiny one-time fee, Green Dimes will stop up to 90% of your junk mail and plant trees.

Librarians Studio, Part 2

Welcome to part 2 of a six part series.

Ken Orenic is a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Dominican University’s Rebecca Crown Library.  Orenic’s responsibilities include providing reference services, teaching information literacy and subject specific library workshops, managing the Government Documents collection, and is the liaison for LIBRAS, a consortium of local private liberal arts colleges and universities.  He received his MLIS from Dominican University, and is pursuing an MA in History at Roosevelt University.  Orenic will teach LIS 704, Introduction to Reference Services in Dominican’s GSLIS this summer.  When not engaging in library-related activities, he can be found in his office playing the ukulele, much to the chagrin of anyone within earshot.

1. What is your favorite word?

Erudite - I like the way it flows.

2. What is your least favorite word?

It’s a toss up between “no” and “shush”

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

The trance-like state achieved through deep study.

4. What turns you off?

Intolerance of any kind.

5. What is your favorite curse word?

You’ll have to ask my kids.

6. What sound or noise do you love?

The howl of strong winds before a storm.

7. What sound or noise do you hate?

The groan of my home’s air conditioner when first started. I pray for just one more year of service before I have to replace it.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Attorney for the ACLU.

9. What profession would you not like to do?

Preschool teacher.

10. If Heaven exists, what do you think God would say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

SAINT PETER, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

Earth Day 2008: Recommended Reading

These are only a few of the myriad environmental books out there. Dominican owns most of these. Some of them are currently checked out (see how popular they are), but can be requested through I-Share.

 

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson : SB 959 .C3

An Inconvenient Truth DVD : DVD QC 981.8 .G56 I53 2006 AV

The Mountains of California by John Muir : F 866 .M9

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold : available in I-Share

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan : GT 2850 .P65 2002

Earth Day 2008: Printing

The Library provides free printing. But we do ask you to please conserve paper whenever possible.

If you don’t absolutely need a hard copy of an article, you could:
• save the PDF or HTML full text to your flash drive
• save the citation in your RefWorks account. RefWorks contains ArticleLinker so you can easily get from your account back to the full text of the article (if the full text is available)
• email yourself the full text right from the database

When printing PowerPoint slides, you have several options. You can print up to 9 slides per page and can save ink by changing colored backgrounds to white. In the print dialog box, just choose the following options:
• Under “Print what,” choose Handouts
• Under “Slides per page,” choose up to 9 slides per page. Check the preview to the right of the menu for each option to see how much room you would have for taking notes.
• Under “Color/grayscale,” choose Pure Black and White. This eliminates the slide background and changes the text to black
• Use Print Preview to see exactly what you’re printing

We unfortunately do not have the ability to print double-sided. But we can all follow the tips above to save paper. Thank you.

Earth Day 2008

Earth Day is Tuesday, April 22. The Dominican University Eco Club is hosting an Earth Day Extravaganza in the Social Hall Tuesday, 10am - 4pm. The Extravaganza includes movies and a plant sale. Bring a reusable mug and get free coffee. The Day ends with a showing of “An Inconvenient Truth” at 7:00.

Find more information on the Eco Club on their MyDU page: https://jicsweb1.dom.edu/ics/Campus_Life/Campus_Groups/Eco_Club/

For more information on Earth Day, see:
Earth Day Network: http://ww2.earthday.net/
EPA: http://www.epa.gov/earthday/

Read the blog all week for more information and eco tips.

Picture from http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap971026.html